... more ugly I confess: I have given up buying Searchlight. There just isn't anything that can be believed in it. In any case, other people send me the good bits- if 'good' is the right word. In June's Searchlight this paragraph appeared; 'Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the UDA and parts of the IRA are jointly controlling some of their criminal activities and use the same drug traffickers.' This is classic disinformation (see also 'IRA Godfathers' et al, ad nauseam) that the British state has been running since about 1971. The story continued: 'Now they are exporting their money-spinning activities here through people like Charlie Sargent and his closest ...

... witness at the trial of two Irish National Liberation Army men at the Old Bailey in 1993. They were accused of conspiracy to steal explosives, conspiracy to cause explosions and possession of firearms with intent to endanger life. Daly lived in Bristol at Southmead from 1969 to 1989. Before this he lived in Highbury Villas, Kingsdown, with an IRA leader known as Jim Flyn. He admitted to having been an informer in Bristol since the mid-seventies- which some of us had guessed- and after 1989 his handling had been taken over by MI5. Apparently he then returned to Belfast under instructions and then moved to Galway, where he again was running a driving school. When he ...

... in The Sunday Independent have a more credible position. I even started to think that David Aaronovitch has his good points despite everything I said when I was an undergraduate and he was a student union bureaucrat in a right-wing Communist Party. I know most of these Irish writers. With principle and integrity, all have at some time rightly denounced IRA terrorism and the use of Republican rhetoric by the gangster capitalists of Fianna Fail. In particular, they have shown how the relentless reference to a 'United Ireland' has driven Loyalist workers in Northern Ireland to support political reactionaries like Ian Paisley. I also still think that a simplistic, immediate withdrawal from Iraq would cause a horrendous sectarian blood-bath ...

... In a final, and most astute tactical move, the 29 June gathering gave their tendency the name 'National Front Support Group', thereby stressing both their identification with the organisation and a certain distance from the leadership. Brady has said this label was his idea, the lesson having been drawn from Northern Ireland that what was once the Provisional IRA is now the IRA proper, and the 'Official IRA' is nowhere.(37) A long hot summer That there was no let-up in the internal conflict was in no small part due to the release of Joe Pearce from jail and his public refusal to 'bury the hatchet' with Griffin and company. On 4 August 1986 Pearce ...

... that Stark was involved with the CIA and had friends in the American Embassy'.(19) In 1972 Hamilton Macmillan, an MI6 officer and nephew of the former Tory Prime Minister, recruited Howard Marks, his old chum from Balliol College, Oxford, to spy on Jim McCann, a hash smuggler whom MI6 believed was a Provisional IRA contact in Amsterdam. Macmillan gave no indication that he knew Marks was already doing business with McCann, or that he knew Marks' name and address had turned up in the address book of arrested IRA volunteer, Dutch Doherty. (The address had been passed onto Doherty by McCann). MI6 did not appear to realise that the ...

... 1970s yet it didn't mention – or, better, show – the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about a smear campaign but didn't refer to the various forgeries which were going around: Ted Short's phoney bank account and all the forged leaflets and letters trying to link Wilson and others to the Communist Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn't just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and the Heath wing of the Tories. And it wasn't just MI5 doing it, either.( [1]) It did contain two significant new pieces of information. The first ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 31) June 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 31 The Nemesis File: the true story of an SAS execution squad Paul Bruce Blake Publishing, London 1995, £15.99 The pseudonymous author author claims to have been a member of a clandestine 4-man SAS squad which assassinated a couple of dozen alleged IRA members in the 1971-3 period in Northern Ireland. The author's taped and transcribed memories are intercut with sections from an uncredited ghost writer- apparently Nick Davies, the Maxwell-arms dealing version, not the investigative journalist- on the general political background. The central allegations come without any substantiating material and are thus impossible to evaluate at present. It is ...

... the Soviets has dwindled, but the power of the international financiers, who have long bankrolled communism, is undiminished.' So now you know. The Illuminati can only be months away. [* !* Image] The illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property). Picture from p. 199 of The British Army in Ulster, Vol 1., David Barzilay, Century, Belfast 1973. A blast from the past The Independent, 5 March, 1994, reported a murder case in which the major prosecution witness, a Tony Cox, was allowed to ...

... action, the ultimate aim of which is a remote concept of a Socialist World Commonwealth with its more immediate (sic) objectives as the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of workers' control in the United Kingdom.' It also pointed out, that 'On Ireland the Party supports the official Sinn Fein (the Communist dominated wing of the IRA) and the Peoples' Democracy, through which Bernadatte Devlin came to prominence, as organisations whose objectives are the establishment of a Socialist Workers' Republic.' All this was more an attempt at making someone's flesh creep than a serious political analysis. The article is so well documented that whoever wrote it must have known the calibre and ...

... , 1983.) 30 million in 1962 is about 300 million today. Red Action Red Action 70 reviewed Larry O'Hara's new book (reviewed in Lobster 28). They start by accusing O'Hara of being a conspiracy theorist. They then take him to task for not taking at face value the role of Red Action members in support of the IRA. 'From O'Hara's standpoint it is preferable to invent a mythical third party to which the shooting can be attributed, rather than wrestle with the uncomfortable reality of the two English-born defendants and the smoking gun?' (The question mark is there in the original, but it actually is not a question.) Larry is- this is ...